Michael Ashley, founder of Codifi, joins this episode to talk about all the new things coming from this company. Chris Webster and Christopher Sims announce their involvement with Codifi, and the whole crew talks about doing better digital archaeology and going completely paperless.

On today's episode we talk to Ben Marwick. Ben has started a forum and a workshop for the 2017 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver, Canada. We talk about coding and what they're going to do at the forum and the workshop. It's a new kind of session and we're excited to help announce it.

For today's show, Chris Webster went to the University of Nevada, Reno, to talk to Dr. Peter Wigand about his work. Dr. Wigand models soil erosion and climate change in areas around the world and uses that information to determine the human impact on the land and on climate. He also uses that information to forecast future impacts to humans and the world.

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From Peter: "The city on the top of the hill, Irsina, is over 2,500 years old…at one time it was the regional capital of the Byzantine Empire, that is, until they were defeated just north of here in about 1170. I am standing next to the 8,400-year old soil. The lines on the upper photo trace a Glacial maximum channel that was cut when sea level was lower. The volcanic ashes are from Mt Vesuvius and date to about 3,800 and 2,800 years ago."

On today's show we welcome Jolene Smith and Neha Gupta - two archaeologists that recently attended the second year of the Digital Archaeology Institute at Michigan State University. It's a week-long program that teaches archaeologists how to use the digital tools that are out there to analyze their data and how to convey those data to the public. We ask Jolene and Neha about there experiences, what they learned, and what their projects were.

The iPad brought tablet technology to more people than any product before it. Now, as Apple and other companies continue to innovate we're looking for ways to make archaeology more efficient and more about archaeology, not paperwork. Apple's September Keynote was PACKED with new technology, software, and hardware that will allow us to simply do more archaeology, and, do it better. Chris and I, along with guest Michael Ashley, unpack the Apple September Keynote and figure out what's good, what's bad, and how it all impacts archaeology for the future.